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The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Monday over Israel's expansion of its offensive in Lebanon, following the capture of the medieval castle of Beaufort, diplomatic sources told AFP.

The meeting was requested by France and will take place immediately after an emergency meeting over the crash of a Russian drone into a Romanian apartment building, which is scheduled for 3:00 pm (1900 GMT), the sources said.

Israel's offensive on Lebanon since 2 March has killed 3,412 people and wounded 10,269 others, the Lebanese health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man Sunday as he attempted to enter Jerusalem by climbing over a barrier separating the city from the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said.

The Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah identified the man as Imad Haroun Ashtiyeh, 26, saying he was killed by Israeli gunfire near the town of Al-Ram, north of Jerusalem.

Ashtiyeh, a construction worker from the village of Salem near Nablus, had attempted to climb the barrier at Al-Ram along with a few other men to make his way to the Israeli city of Tel Aviv for work, said Omer, a relative who gave only his first name.

An AFP journalist saw Ashtiyeh's corpse shrouded in a Palestinian flag at the Ramallah medical complex, his relatives weeping over his body.

Ashtiyeh is the fifth Palestinian killed trying to cross into Israel this year, and the 52nd since October 7, 2023, according to the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions.

Ground forces from Iran's Revolutionary Guards attacked bases belonging to "separatist groups" in northern Iraq, Iranian state media said on Sunday.

It was not clear which specific locations had been attacked.

Following a series of discussions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz are leaning toward approving large-scale strikes across various parts of Lebanon within the next 24 hours, including the issuance of evacuation orders to hundreds of thousands of civilians, Israel's Channel 14 reported.

An Israeli strike near a hospital in Tyre, south Lebanon wounded 13 staffers, the Lebanese health ministry said, as Israel pushes forward its offensive deeper into the country.

"The Israeli enemy launched an airstrike in the vicinity of Hiram Hospital in Tyre, injuring 13 hospital staff members and causing significant damage," the ministry said in a statement, urging "the international community to put an end to the escalating and expanding Israeli attacks".

Images of the targeted building were shared online.

عاجل | وزارة الصحة اللبنانية: 13 جريحا من العاملين في مستشفى حيرام بمدينة صور جراء غارة إسرائيلية على محيط المستشفى pic.twitter.com/asN4XNoA8G

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Sunday that Israeli forces' capture of Beaufort castle in southern Lebanon marked a "dramatic shift" in Israel's campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

"Today, we have returned to Beaufort in a different way. We have returned united, determined, and stronger than ever," Netanyahu said in a video statement.

"The capture of Beaufort is a dramatic stage and a dramatic shift in the policy we are leading. We have broken the barrier of fear. We are taking the initiative, we are operating on all fronts - in Syria, in Gaza, in Lebanon."

France has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council after Israeli forces seized the medieval Beaufort castle in southern Lebanon, the French foreign minister said Sunday.

"I have requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council because, while we recognise Israel's right, like that of all countries, to self-defence... nothing can justify the continuation of Israeli military operations in Lebanon and its ever-deeper occupation of Lebanese territory," Jean-Noel Barrot said on the BFMTV channel.

Iran has restored gas production at three offshore platforms in the South Pars gas field that had been forced to halt output after Israeli attacks disrupted processing capacity at some onshore facilities, the chief executive of the Pars Oil and Gas Company told state media on Sunday.

Touraj Dehqani said the platforms had not been damaged. He said production from the three platforms was being routed to other processing plants in the region while repairs continue at damaged facilities, including the Phase 14 refinery.

Iran's top negotiator Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf said on Friday in a post on X that Tehran does not trust guarantees and words, and would judge by actions, adding that Iran would not act unless the other side did first.

The United States and Iran reached an agreement on Thursday to extend their ceasefire and lift restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, sources told Reuters, though U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to approve it and Iranian state media said it had not been finalised.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said troops will remain in the Beaufort Castle as part of Israel's security zone in southern Lebanon.

He had announced earlier on Sunday that Israeli troops captured the medieval and strategic castle.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy says 28 vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, according to state media.

Iranian state media reported on Saturday that a proposed memorandum of understanding with the United States included an agreement to release $12 billion in frozen assets.

The report cited an "unofficial" draft of the memorandum, and a similar item carried by state TV earlier this week was dismissed by the White House as a "fabrication".

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The Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for residents south of the Zahrani River in southern Lebanon before strikes.

South of the Zahrani River covers around 58% of southern Lebanon.

#عاجل ‼️انذار عاجل إلى سكان جنوب لبنان وخاصة جميع السكان المتواجدين جنوب نهر الزهراني

🔸في ضوء قيام حزب الله الارهابي بخرق اتفاق وقف اطلاق النار واستهدافه للجبهة الداخلية الاسرائيلية يضطر جيش الدفاع للعمل ضده بقوةّ لا سيما في مناطقكم. جيش الدفاع لا ينوي المساس بكم.

🔸حرصًا على… pic.twitter.com/aJGrfLZT1m

— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) May 31, 2026

The Israeli military said one of its soldiers were killed in combat in southern Lebanon, where battles rage with Hezbollah.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Sunday that the military had captured the strategic medieval fortress of Beaufort in southern Lebanon, where it is expanding ground operations against Iran-backed Hezbollah.

"Forty-four years after the heroic Battle of Beaufort, and on this day commemorating the soldiers who fell in the First Lebanon War (1982), our troops have returned to the summit of Beaufort and once again raised the Israeli flag there," Katz said on his Telegram channel.

The fortress commands sweeping views of south Lebanon, making it a position of considerable strategic value.

Israeli forces used the castle, also known as Qalaat Shqeef, as a base during their previous occupation of southern Lebanon, which lasted nearly two decades before ending in 2000.

🔴 The Israeli flag and the Golani Brigade flag were raised over Beaufort Castle after it was captured. pic.twitter.com/2RFuEQKsqh

— This Is Beirut (@ThisIsBeirut_) May 31, 2026